Searching for the God? Remember God is not within your body but it is hidden by the world in which you exist.
God is not in any mosque, temple, or church. The religious Gods are not God in truth.
Sage Goudapada’s rational exposition of Advaita: ~ “Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.
To realize the world in which you exist is an illusion you have to realize the fact that the ‘Self’ is not the ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, the witness of the ‘I’.
Unless you realize the ‘Self’ as the Soul, you are all blinded by the dualistic illusion or Maya.
The experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality within the waking experience.
The waking experience is a parallel dream and the dream is a parallel waking experience. The waking experience is the dualistic illusion or Maya.
To overcome the dualistic illusion you have to get rid of the ignorance by realizing the ‘Self is, not the ‘I’.
Until you hold the’ I’ as ‘Self’, ignorance will not vanish. So, there is a need to realize ‘What is this ‘I’?
You must realize the fact that the ‘I’ is not the ‘‘Self’’, but the ‘‘Self’’ is the formless Soul the Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Since ‘I’ is the inborn conditioning it will not vanish by inquiring ‘Who AM ‘I’, or just saying ‘I AM THAT’ ignorance will not vanish. There is a need for a deeper understanding of the nature of the ‘I’.
Deeper self-search reveals that the world in which you exist is a dualistic illusion or Maya created by the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The existence of the universe in which you exist is negated, where is then any room to say that the ‘I’ is the ‘Self’. Without the ‘I’ the world, in which you exist ceases to exist.
The Soul is the ‘Self’. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the substance and witness of the illusory universe or Maya. The Soul is hidden by the illusory universe or Maya and it is always apart from the illusory universe or Maya.
The Soul is hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya as its formless substance and it is without the dualistic illusion or Maya as its witness.
In Atmic reality, the substance and witness of the illusion are one, in essence. That essence is consciousness.
Thus, the Soul or consciousness alone is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
Upanishads: ~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)
No one can teach anybody. Wisdom is hidden within the world in which you exist. A Gnani can only show the way that much is the work of a Gnani.
A Gnani only guides the seekers to apply their own reason and realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
When the seeker learns to view judge and reason the three states on the base of the Soul, the truth will start unfolding on its own. First, the seeker may find it difficult to use Soulcentric reason but gradually it will become easy.
Self-inquiry is finding out the ‘Self’ which is hidden by the illusory universe in which we exist.
By inquiring ‘Who am I?’, ignorance will not vanish. Without getting rid of ignorance, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn.
Without Advaitic wisdom, it is not possible to realize the truth, which is hidden within the world in which we exist.
That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘‘Self’’ how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.
What is the use of saying ‘I AM THAT’- without knowing what the ‘‘Self’’ is in actuality?
Without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’, without realizing the truth of the world in which you exist it is impossible to realize the truth beyond the form, time, and space. By a mere utterance of the word ‘I AM THAT', the truth will not be revealed.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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